Keeping Lawson would have been logical, PCB and logic can never be applied together.Quick question, was there ever any justification given for getting rid of Lawson?
I give this two months btw.
Xenophobia.Quick question, was there ever any justification given for getting rid of Lawson?
I wouldn't mind seeing Aaqib in the coaching position either.....I wonder how is he going to get along with guys like shoaib akhtar and shahid afridi..I don't think this will work.. Bring Lawson back.. he was very good..
Pakistan lost both the test and ODI series to India in 2007. When Pakistan lose to India, heads roll.Quick question, was there ever any justification given for getting rid of Lawson?
I give this two months btw.
Yeah unfortunately Pakistan is still obsessed with India. No matter how good their palyers do, if they cannot perform against India they are out. And vice versa. No matter how terrible they are otherwise, if they perform against India, they are in for ever. (Akmal, Butt, Khan) etc. I think this mentatlity should change. India is just another team out there.Pakistan lost both the test and ODI series to India in 2007. When Pakistan lose to India, heads roll.
Anyway, I agree with Xuhaib. This is a ridiculous move. What upsets me about PCB is they keep doing the same things over and over again, just rotating the same failed policies thats all..
When they sacked Lawson, they said the last two foreign coaches Woolmer and Lawson had failed so no more foreign coaches..only national coaches.
Now that Intikhar has failed, its back to foreign coaches.
Dont they realize that a coach has very little to do with an actual match at the international level? This is not football where the manager plays the most important part.
Coach's scope is limited. Greg Chappell cannot change the fact that Imran Farhat and Salman Butt, being openers move their feet across and get lbw, or play away from their body and get nicked. He cant change the fact that Faisal Iqbal is a pathetic batsman nor can he change the fact that Mohammad Yousuf consistently fails against top quality teams overseas.
The change has to come at the grassroot level, so that in 4-5 years time, the newer players dont have these deficiencies!
This is one dire post.Yeah unfortunately Pakistan is still obsessed with India. No matter how good their palyers do, if they cannot perform against India they are out. And vice versa. No matter how terrible they are otherwise, if they perform against India, they are in for ever. (Akmal, Butt, Khan) etc. I think this mentatlity should change. India is just another team out there.
I apologise. I somehow mixed up the ODI and test records of these players. Butt has a brilliant ODI record against Ind, Khan indeed has a smashing record vs Ind but his batting hasnt been bad otherwise, Akmal's case too echoes a similar case. Sorry.This is one dire post.
Butt and Akmal are in because there is no better alternatives and YK is a brilliant bat so will score runs India or no India.Pakstan batsman do well against India because Indian bowling is of much poor quality compared to other major sides not because they suddenly get a turbo boost when facing India.
I thought precam had improved I guess I was wrong.
He is pretty successful with U19 team and if you start picking out the "corrupt" people in Pakistan Cricket....no one will be legible except a handful of honest ppl.Would have thought the prospect of Ijaz Ahmed taking over as coach would be more comical considering accusations from former players that Ijaz was one of the most corrupt players in the Pakistani side in the 1990s alongside brother in-law, Saleem Malik. Bad enough that Ijaz is coaching the U19 side given that.